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Intuition in business has emerged into the forefront lately. Some of our brightest and most well known people use it! Why… because it works!

Bill Gates – “Often you have to rely on intuition.”

Albert Einstein - ”The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.”

Robert Graves – “Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.” 

Ingrid Bergman - “You must train your intuition – you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide”

Albert Einstein – “The only real valuable thing is intuition.”

Intuition in business works miracles in any people related business due to fact that in most business situations there are hidden agendas. Trying to flush out that critical objection can be hazardous at best and if it stays hidden can scuttle a deal. Intuition in business is the edge you need over competitors. Once you have identified the type of prospective customer you are dealing with, you can then rely on your intuition to determine the information that they need to know which will in turn identify the benefits that will be most useful in completing the sale. Using your intuition will enhance your communication skill set and bring forth positive results. Sensing the best price to sell at or the reason behind a client’s hesitance will win you not only more clients but also a more successful career.

Michael Munn, Ph.D. used his intuition in business and is upfront about letting people know that he did. Munn is an award-winning engineer who has managed multi million dollar covert projects. As a former aerospace chief scientist for Lockheed, he and his teams worked on challenging technical problems. Because they worked on the cutting edge of science there was no one to follow. They had a program aimed at stopping Russian nuclear bombs in space. Munn credited their success to brief meditation sessions during the day. This allowed them to take the time to listen to their inner knowing and the resulting intuitions. Munn said, “How do I know the answers are there? I see pictures or movies or dreamlike sequences. I have an immediate inner knowing that this is the answer for which I was waiting. My intuition lets me know, ‘This is it!”’

Albert Einstein – “The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you. You don’t know how or why.”

Intuition Defined

Intuition is typically information that arrives in a sudden flash, an “aha” or a clear sense of knowing without effort. The sense of intuition is often a superior cognitive sense that uses insights resulting from various areas. The sense of knowing is so complete that I am often in awe of the process. The rapid time frame in which it happens brings with it a sense of certainty regarding the favorable or unfavorable outcome in the future.

How to Cultivate Intuition in Business

Meditation …take the time to still your mind for short periods during the day. Transcendental mediation recommends spending 20 minutes in the morning and twenty minutes mid-afternoon to meditate. The more regularly that you practice, the greater the results you will see. Not only will your stress level be reduced, your blood pressure lowered, but your intuition in business will develop over time.

Keep a journal of insights that you have. Date the entries so you can look back and see if you were correct before the fact. I used to think I did not have an intuitive bone in my body until I started tracking my hunches. Written in black and white, it will be hard to deny the truth once you have enough instances logged. Anyone who has had “hindsight”, has intuition that they have been ignoring.

Pay attention to your body. Be aware of the way it feels on a good day. Notice where you hold tension and when. If you are attuned to the “feel” of your body day to day you will be more aware when intuition hits you in the “gut”. The solar plexus is generally where most people sense the physical forms of intuition. Because intuition in business or elsewhere is often very subtle, you must learn live in the present and in your body. It can be an exquisite tool for providing insights that will benefit you in all areas of your life.

Ask for feedback. If you sense something, ask a question that will allow you to determine if you have correctly intuited the situation. If it is a sensitive situation you may have to be careful in the way you word it however the feedback you receive is invaluable for your confidence in trusting your intution.

Listen to the still small voice within. The majority of people often have so much going on that taking the time to really listen gets lost in the clutter of day to day life. If the communication is too soft ask that the volume be increased. I have no idea how it works, I just know it does.

Get in the habit of playing small intuitive games with yourself to help build your skill level. Practice visualizing what your co-worker will be wearing when you get to the office. This is easily verifiable and will build your confidence. Intuit who is on the other end of the phone when it rings. Intuition in business is like any muscle, it can be exercised to strengthen it.

Most of all… have fun with it. Intuition is one of those things that will not not work if you try too hard. Be playful and relax and you will see results!

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When you call a reader are you really willing to hear what is said? Or are you so invested in your personal situation that the response cannot be heard?

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The Law of Attraction ~ How Do You Feel Love When You Have Been Betrayed?

How do you feel love when you have been betrayed? It’s easy to love someone when they are good to you. However when you have interactions with someone who irritates you and you “feel” that irritation every time you see them, guess what you are attracting… more irritation! You always have a choice in how to respond. Analyze what it is that annoys you and decide what would be the best way to act or respond before you speak. Learn to “act” rather than “react”.

Kind loving responses will draw more of the same to you as will angry outbursts however behaving lovingly to someone who has hurt or angered you, probably creates the one of the greatest challenges for most people. How can you reach a state of mind that allows you to respond in love? Abraham says it is as simple as reaching for a better emotion. Find something about that person to appreciate. Obviously you don’t like the energy or attitude emanating from this person however you may be able to appreciate the “passion” with which they deliver their message. Look for something no matter how small… it may be the way they dress, their punctuality, their persistence or their memory (and their ability to recall everything you have ever said or done).

Once you have found something you can sincerely appreciate without judging them at the same time, focus all your attention on that and watch your attitude shift. Remember the only person you can change is yourself. The “blame game” never works and breaking through an impasse often takes some creative thinking.

More often than not what angers or irritates us is a trigger to some event that hurt us in the past. An elderly friend of mine, a very gentle, kind woman, walked thru the church basement one day and came across some people in an AA meeting. She told me she instantly felt angry. She went upstairs and saw the pastor standing there. Instantly she blurted out, before she had time to think, “They should all be dead!” referring to the AA members. Embarrassed and ashamed, she apologized and said that she had no idea where that came from. When we discussed the situation later she talked about her step father, a man her mother was forced into marrying. He had been an alcoholic and tried to molest her and her sisters when they were very young. Although she had not thought of that man since she left home at 14, more than 66 years prior, the reaction she had was as fresh as the day when she caught him going after her sister.

Ask the right questions and you will get the right answers. The quality of your interactions depends on the quality of your words which depends on the quality of your thoughts. Reach for positive feelings about your adversary. Though their feeling towards you may not change, your ability to act in a positive loving way towards them will make your life more joyful and your relationships far more satisfying.

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Your intention, whether positive or negative, always activates the Law of Attraction. How can you tell if it is working effectively for you? Keep a journal. Every morning note your feelings and thoughts in a book that you use exclusively for that. Highlight sections that are highly charged emotionally. Highly charged feelings have the most power to draw things to you. Whether you consciously choose your points of attention or not, the Law of Attraction always works. If you are constantly reaping “crap” in your life, look back through your journal to see what your predominant emotions were over the last few weeks or months.

I know someone who was a very successful online poker player. “Was” being the operative term. In the beginning he, his wife and two children lived in the basement of his mother-in-law’s house. While playing online, his income grew dramatically to the point they were able to move into a beautiful home of their own in a nice area of town. Their third child was born. A couple years later they moved into a new home worth 1.5 million. He had arrived! …and so did their fourth child. Then he decided that playing online at home where he could interact with his wife and kids was no longer sufficient. He wanted to play at the casinos to liven up his experience. He had moderate success with tournaments around the world and at the WSOP. The partying and the women in Vegas became more important and he left his wife and kids.

He now had a hot new girlfriend that he spent copious amounts of money on. His wife filed for divorce and because she had four small children under the age of 8, she was awarded a significant amount of child support. The girlfriend was afraid her “cash cow” boyfriend (as she put it) was not going to have the same amount of money to spend on her and the lifestyle she had become accustomed to. Bickering and fighting became common in his new relationship.

My point is not about the divorce or the evils of booze and gambling. The change was in his mindset. When he first started to play they lived on a sparse income. He was extremely grateful for the increase in his income. He had a good life, a wife who loved him and four beautiful children. They could afford to travel and buy whatever they wanted. He affirmed their prosperity and good luck!

After his marriage broke up, he became greedy and begrudged his wife the child support she had been awarded. He didn’t want to spend time with his kids on his visitation days because now he had to make sure they were clean and fed and that they got to school on time. He began to complain bitterly. His wife had to beg him for the support money. “I don’t have any money,” he would complain. “I have to build up my bankroll again.” “I had to borrow money from my parents!” “I can pay a nanny $2000 a month to do what you do!” He became miserly, hiding his money, making excuses about lack and how she was “financially raping him.” Yet he still had the money for trips to France, England and the Bahamas with his girlfriend.

His attitude had changed from one of gratitude and love to one of greed and deceit. His story is one of “rags to riches” and back again. Although he has what he said he wanted, the Vegas lifestyle, a “VIP concierge for high rollers” as a girlfriend, is he happy? …is he making money? Does he have quality of life? Absolutely not!

In her settlement his wife got the house and sold it so she could move into a smaller home in their old neighbourhood. She is grateful for the fact that although the marriage ended she has four beautiful children and a home for them. She has a limited income right now but is getting more education. The kids are happy and healthy and are excited about their new home. It is on their old street and a lot of their friends still live there. She and the children are living a charmed although less affluent life.

The Law of Attraction works whether or not we believe it does. What are you grateful for? …and what do you affirm with highly charged emotions every day? Is it positive or is it negative. Pull out your journal and see how accurately your words, thoughts and emotions have created your current reality.

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Albert Einstein said about intuition:

• “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

Billionaire investor George Soros, (in his book Soros on Soros): when asked how he found out when things (i.e., his logic) were going wrong, responded “I feel pain. I rely a great deal on animal instincts. When I was actively running the Fund, I suffered from backache. I used the onset of acute pain as a signal that there was something wrong in my portfolio.” Soros takes positions on billions of dollars every day, relies on his intuition in business. The definition of intuition is instinctive knowing without the use of rational processes

How many of you are thinking that’s fine for them but I haven’t got an intuitive bone in my body!

Then let me ask you a couple of questions…

• Have you ever, after something happened, thought to yourself, “I knew that or I knew that was going to happen?
• Have you ever experienced déjà vu?
• Known that your were going to get the job
• If you answered yes to any of those then you have experienced intuition!

I took up meditation as a way to reduce stress in my life and found that it enhanced my intuitive ability. Having been raised with a strong Christian background, my interest in intuition raised some serious question for a number of family members. I came to realize that intuition was synonymous with the gift of knowledge in the Bible. What I have found is that most people are so busy they can’t hear the small still voice. When we feel that feeling in our solar plexus, our gut, we just drink some more pepto!

You can experience intuition in a number of ways

Clairvoyance – seeing a picture in your mind
Clairaudience – hearing a voice outside your head
Clairsentience – that gut feeling in the solar plexus area

How many of you have experienced that just before a draw was made and you won something? Intuition can be a partner in creating a better life for your self.

• It can enhance better decision making. Start listening for the small still voice and trust your gut feelings.
• The opportunity to relieve stress.
• Less worry about how something might turn out.
• Could mean an alternative to prescription drugs.

How can you cultivate intuition? Look for clues!

• Create an intuition journal. You will be amazed how accurate you really are and how many experiences you have had once you write them down.
• Practice imagining who is on the phone when it rings.
• Play with it and don’t take yourself to seriously, a playful attitude allows intuition in, straining prevents it.

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein

“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” ~ Alan Alda